Addendum: 1) I forgot to talk about the chariots or the Foresters! Sorry 2) The ring decision for Enedwaith isn't always good - if you ally with Isengard or Mordor, then the game will consider you evil and give you the evil choice.
Please start keeping a tally of stuff like that, it's a major oversight tbh. You also forgot to mention they get units from Dunland if they conquer their territories...
Dan Isrusski you clearly already know that information so either keep it to yourself, say it in a respectful way OR even better why don’t YOU make a faction overview with your overwhelming knowledge of the mod. I’m sure you can do a better job than Galu the mod lead. People make mistakes FOH
@@BoomTownJava As the mod lead I would expect him to make better overviews than leaving out 2 central units in the roster. Saying I should make an overview is ridicolous.
One thing to note is that Enedwaith's cavalry is actually massively outclassed by most people they fight; Dunland has 2 option that are stronger than the riders and are also skilled against mounts Great overview as always!
Could you guys make it in V5, where the great Clan Hall building isnt demolishable? Thats where the diplomats come from and i cant tell you how important diplomats are as Enedwaith. If the city is taken by an enemy and they sack or exterimaties the city, its always destroyed and you cant rebuild it. Edit: I wish to correct myself here, you CAN rebuild it. However could we still make it none demolishable? Every other special diplomatic building is, why not the Clan Hall Building? Considering how weak Enedwaith gets in early mid to late game.
Only the Woodland Realm and Lothlórien have access to ents. Moreover, I think I saw golden armoured elves with red capes. Only the Woodland Realm have red caped soldiers ( being inspired by the "Hobbit"-movies). Thus, my guess is the Woodland Realm.
I for one am looking forward to next week's Woodland Hunters-overview! How such an unassuming unit can conquer Eriador.... how they live, what animals they hunt, what they spend their wages on - blimey, I'm getting stoked just writing this! In all seriousness - thanks for all the content :)
Just started a campaign with Ar-Adunaim and sailed to Tharbad. Enedwaith is giving me more trouble than I thought they would. Luckily the Dundelings are throwing everything they have against them.
@@nordkrom4270 the AA is actually quite strong and overpowers anything arround the Tharbad region but they are unsuited to deal with fast javelin armed troops who can kite them arround even in Skirmish mode and since they have no early tier cav they cant chase them down in that way either
@@nordkrom4270 This is false and obviously so. You can certainly settle and expand successfully in other locations. Umbar might be the easiest but it certainly isn't the only location.
would be cool if enedwaith had a choice that either gave them a more solid infantry backbone, or to choose a more maritimal path and get some sort of marineers/pirates and a better ship, so you could go raid !
1. I absolutely love Enedwaith, one of my favourite factions. 2. River elders need some love. The 10 attack on the jav is fine, but because it's not AP, it's just worse then the one of angren raiders. 8 AP is so much better then 10 normal, especially when you consider that the primary purpose of javelin units is to dispose of units you cant defeat hand to hand. Something has 12 armor + shield? 8 AP will have 60% chance to kill, while 10 normal around 45%. When you consider that there are fewer elders in a unit, they are probably the worst javelin unit of enedwaith. I know they are kinda useful as spearmen, but 7/15 wont win you anything. I consistently get more kills with greyflood raiders, since there is 203 of them and have 6 missiles instead of 5 of elders. 3. Guardians of Enedwaith no longer seem to have their special piercing javelin? From what I've seen, their javelins behave just like common AP.
hi Galu, i'm not sure if other forest textures are available, but in the middle ages it was very common to 'Coppice' or "pollard' woods- maybe you could use one of those for 'the woods harvested by the Numenoreans'? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zVPUFMwm73Y.html - here's the video where I learned about it.
About the choice between Isengard or stay neutral, what about the neutral choice give you the option to recruit druedan. If I remember correctly the druedan also live in an enedwaithian region called something iaur. They also famously hate orcs and I think they would not like to side with an orc nation, as part of the clans of enedwaith. Maybe buff the druedan unit too, to make it worthwhile.
The druedan unit is very usefull in defensive sieges because of the poison aspect of their attack having in a defensive siege battle is almost has good has having the ranger unit of the enedwaith
Give this idea on DaC discord in suggetions thread. Galu often asks to do that because he rearly read yt comments. Also rest of the modding team will see it there.
I just saw the Enedwaith clansman, why do they have swords? As you note Enedwaith is a poor faction living in woods and near the coast, would it not make more sense if you the clansman have axes? Axes are both cheaper and more versatile than swords. I do not know if the lore says anything about that. In general, I expected more axes in it rooster. It could also be a lore friendly way to give them some more armour piercing capabilities. But you do you haha
Actually, it would make way more sense for the clansmen to use spears (The Ultimate Weapon). Not only are they very cheap but Enedwaith is surrounded by factions with better cavalry than them. Billhooks are also acceptable
@@gaiusjuliuscaesar8450 Agree, they are by far the most cost-effective weapons a big army can have. The only reason I oppose clansman (or more units) having spears is because there needs to be some variety, which is also an argument to let them keep the swords I guess.
@Lord_of_619 Tbh, I don't know if Bronze is *that* cheap, compared to iron. Iron is faaar easier to find then all the alloys of bronze, so it may not be cheaper, outside from manufacturing costs of course.
Would be nice if there were any changes in the Enedwaith unit models when you give them armor uppgrades. Feels strange when they are supposed to wear chainmail and they look like they are only wearing shirts.
A good script for wildmen factions, if you are going to work on them, would be a script that allows them to steal the better technology from their defeated enemies. So if you defeat, say, Gondor you could obtain some knowledge of stoneworking and thus allow you to build a higher level of settlement. If you defeat a smithing faction like Isengard or a dwarven faction you can gain higher upgrades. That way the player is rewarded for defeating nations who are generally superior to their faction. As the player, you will be able to conquer the world as any faction. So its strange that a dominant world-conquering human faction would be living in mud huts and living as wild men in the end. Its what has happened in real history when barbarian nations defeated superior civilizations.
That’s how I edited the upgrades. I don’t have the time or patience to make new skins but I made all their final (advanced blacksmith) upgrade levels a new reskin from a more advanced faction. I try to keep it with in what I see as the low confines. No plate, but Mail should not be out of reach
I haven't played dac in a long time (or any tw games for that matter) but my last campaign was an Enedwaith one. Early game going with half a stack of Grey flood raiders and the rest whatever I could muster. Setting a defensive line with some javelins behind and archers further back so when the opponent charges my line they get hit in the face hard. Big greyflood javs ambush hidden on one side and some axemen on the other. Sending some skirmishers early to annoy the AI and make them charge. Their front line gets slaughtered with javs and peppered with arrows, the moment they hit my spear wall I send my cav and hidden axemen to smash their archers, the hidden raiders units pop from the side, form behind their infantry and... bloodbath ensues. Their numbers drop just as quick as their morale while my greyfloods rain javs at their backs. Not as fancy and safe as Dunedain / Elven kiting but brutally effective. Different ambush scenarios for different setups but thousands of javelins made for a cruel punishment every single time.
Oh, review of Enedwaith is very welcome indeed! I've landed in Tharbad as AA just yesterday. Good to know what you're going to meet in these woods (trash, more trash and a javelin to the face of your faction leader)
Do you guys know about the bug where the AI seems to get unlimited ammunition on both Archer units and crossbow units , or horribly, javelins? It also happened to my Duneidein cav once , But it seems to favor the AI , additionally I could only command my units to melee even though they were engaging with missiles of their own accord even though it said their ammunition was gone and I know for a fact I've seen Snaga and Balcoth fire 18+ rounds
Galu, a Lond Daer script where rebuilding an ancient numenorean building in it since it was an ancient numenorean haven would be really cool. Like a script or something where in conquering lond daer and rebuilding some ancient barracks gives you a numenorean style unit
I always thought that Lond Daer wasnt special enough for being the first permanent Numenorian settlement. I always thought that there should be an adittional level of Port or something considering that it is literally called "Great Haven".
Why would they get a "Numenorean Unit"? What Numenorean would fight for them? Why would the warriors fight in the Numenorean style? Also... the Enedwaithrim hate Numenoreans for deforesting their lands. Can you Numenor fanbois just stop, for once?! 🤣
@@alejandrodeluna6420 "They found Armor and started producing it" ... Think about this. Think. How would they know how to make Numenorean plate armor? Where would they take the materials from? And why haven't they made their own plate armor, IF they already know how to make it. This idea makes no sense at all.
I know Enedwaith is supposed to be Neutral, but I loathe them now because of an event in my first ever campaign. While playing as the Northern Dunedain I allied to them and we actively campaigned together against the Dunlendings. Once that threat was dealt with, they started trying to pick territory off of Bree, so I tore into them with a vengeance. But they had allied to the High Elves without me noticing and the HE sided with Enedwaith over me. I was the aggressor technically since I was responding to an attack on Bree and not on myself. Elrond committed immediately to a Kamikaze attack on the nearest Dunedain village. It was lightly garrisoned, but I'm the PC, so I had to revert to a save previous to my having killed my father-in-law/member of the White Council in good standing while playing as a good faction. Now I just preemptively wipe out Enedwaith anytime I'm west of the Misty Mountains. All the sea trade from those coastal towns is wasted on those barbarous savages anyway.
Also, if I'm interpreting it correctly, you get full benefits from the Fisheries when you conquer Enedwaith. They're just rebels keeping the central western coast warm until you settle it and who then sell you fish.
I think Enedwaith should get a higher tier armor piercing strike unit on top of the Greyflood Axemen, the Minhiriath Warriors are a really fun unit but really lacking if you ever have to go up against really anyone other than Bree. I am firmly of the belief that Ened Waith should be one of worst factions in the game that requires sly gameplay. The armor piercing generals are useful but having another armor piercing unit would just give you another option to try to trick your opponents with. Even if it's just a second tier unit. I love Ened Waith, they're absolutely my favorite faction in the game (that I've played at least, still a good chance they're my favorite overall)
@@ilari90 I was thinking about it and I think it would nice to have the Greyflood Raiders be bumped up in stats a little bit to about a 10-9 and have a trash level lumbermen unit like the Dalesmen to fill in at the militia level of units.
Funnel every eryn vorn woodsmen to an advanced blacksmith and all of a sudden you have a halberd unit with 215 men, all of which have 7 armor, and the upkeep of 150. Super cheap and effective backbone for an army. Also enedwaith hunters are super good because they are incredibly cheap, have 190 men in a unit, but also AVERAGE accuracy. It is so easy to chug out hunters so from my experience you will destroy everyone.
Playing the faction game: Hopefully unlike last time I don't mistake the giant hint unit and mess up. Gonna bet those are Ents, and this is Lothlorien? (Perhaps with the unit they get from their diplomacy script from the Woodland Realm?) And we are 0/2 here, guess both Lothlorien and the Woodland Realm can get Ents, TIL. Oh well, its basically the same faction.
Suggestion: It would be a cool reward for choosing good/evil if you were awarded the ability to recruit unique units from other factions if you take a specific city. Eg; choose good, take Isengard, recruit Orthanc Sentries. Thoughts??
Playing as the Woodland Realm now actually - cannot wait for the next vid to see how wrongly I've been using them haha (Dol Guldur not that difficult actually as I rushed them pretty hard right from the start. Gundabad, however .... good God they need a nerf).
Hello Galu, i have an suggestion for a video. Guilds - what do you do to get them. You can read it in the export_descr_guilds.txt file, but it would be really neat to talk briefly about the requirements (buildings, training etc.)
i wish there is a script for the wild men to upgrade their tech and get either new buildings and units if you conquer some of the civilized factions. for example you take out gondor as enedweith or isenguard as dunland and steal their tech.
War wagons are by far the best chariot unit in chariot v. chariot combat due to the "thrown" trait on the javelins that makes javelins absolutely destroy the "elephant" type units
sigh, "turtle" - an act of waiting for the outcome and actions of a certain faction, hunkering down and buffing up as best as you can. now that word is a new terminology for this game, i love it
Also, with River Elders stats vs Moot Keepers stats it's always better to have a river elder with ranged attack that kills 50-100 enemies before contact and anti cav spears vs moot keeper with 1-2 more attack and defense
Does it make sense when a certain unit has a "hide anywhere" ability it should be able to hide anywhere on the campaign map as well (on condition the army consists only of units with that trait)?
Honestly the woodland realm needs an archer buff because apparently they are the “best archer nation” and statistically no they are not, the hin-e-daur need a huge buff too
@@jacksonperez5615 I mean, you're free to disagree... but numbers don't lie. WR archers have superiour range and damage to High Elf archers and a higher unit size to that of Lothlorien so they fire more arrows per volley. That's just fact.
Hey guys, Im a little bit of a DaC noob, so if someone could tell me: What do general stats (command, renown, loyalty, acumen, so 1 more of X gives what of Y) actually do? For example, i dont see a way to bribe generals so whats the point of a higher loyalty? Second, with regards to experience chevrons, is there a point in ranking a unit up from 7 (Gold I) to 9 (Gold III)? I dont see any stat changes, but maybe there is something im missing. Edit: and what does terrain bonus actually do for a unit? Does it impact combat effectiveness/morale and to what extent?
Command makes your generals perform better in auto-resolve and possibly make your units fight better, not sure about that one. Renown reduces unrest in the settlement the general is in, as well as increasing population growth Acumen increases the settlement's income Loyalty doesn't do anything, generals cannot betray you nor be bribed. It's just for flavor There's no difference between 7 and 9 chevrons, other than the experience loss when you merge it with other units I think(?) terrain gives you a tiny morale bonus. It's a pretty minor feature and you can safely ignore it
@@gaiusjuliuscaesar8450 Terrain is a quite big thing as you tire really easily in terrain malus places even when walking. Acumen lowers also the corruption of the settlement. Command gives morale bonus to troops. Loyalty can affect corruption too. Chevrons may give more morale in those 7 to 9 tiers, also there's a risk that if a unit gets damaged, it may lose some chevrons so it protects against that too.
@@ilari90 Thanks for the addendum, although I have to ask exactly how do you know if loyalty increases corruption? I remember Galu saying that loyalty had no effect other than flavor
Funny stuff happened wheno tested out enedwaiths power i killed dunalnd weakened isengard si rohan coild kill it (( they fidnt becuase it was turm 123 and isengard was pumping out elites)) so i went to fight in derwath to my surprise king theodred was therr fighting mootlord urdrek and it was kinda funny science the portrait is the same
